New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Legacy Recordings has unveiled Elvis Costello's contribution to the forthcoming 'Johnny Cash: Forever Words' album, out April 6 on Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony
Music Entertainment. The brand-new song is set to a poem written by
Johnny Cash that is now being put to music for the very first time.
"I'll Still Love You" is featured on BBC
Radio 2's Chris Evans Show today. The full song is being premiered online by Rolling Stone, alongside a video vignette of Elvis diving into the process of turning this newly discovered
Johnny Cash poem into an original song.
Says Elvis in the video, "The folio of lyrics was before me on the kitchen table…I was glancing through the folio and that particular lyric was there on the page, and the next thing [I knew], I could hear it…in a very unusual way."
'Johnny Cash: Forever Words' is out April 6 on Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony
Music Entertainment. Along with Costello, the album features new songs by Chris Cornell, Ruston
Kelly & Kacey Musgraves, Rosanne Cash,
Alison Krauss & Union Station, Kris Kristofferson & Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, John Mellencamp, Carlene Carter, Elvis Costello, The Jayhawks and more.
Last month, Legacy Recordings premiered Chris Cornell's "You Never Knew My Mind," also from 'Johnny Cash: Forever Words.' To listen to "You Never Knew My Mind," "I'll Still Love You," and other
Johnny Cash music, follow the Johnny Cash: Forever Words playlist.
When
Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash passed, they left behind what John Carter Cash, their son and 'Johnny Cash: Forever Words' co-producer, describes as a "monstrous amassment" of things, including a treasure trove of undiscovered material that includes Johnny Cash's handwritten letters, poems and documents, penned across the entirety of his life.
Recorded primarily at the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, 'Johnny Cash: Forever Words' is also the musical companion to the best-selling "Forever Words: The Unknown Poems," a volume of Cash's unpublished writing edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and curated by John Carter Cash and Steve Berkowitz. Muldoon also contributes liner notes on the album. Many of the songs on 'Johnny Cash: Forever Words' were directly inspired by material in the book while others are drawn from different sources of Cash's unpublished writings.
Johnny Cash: Forever Words
Forever/I Still Miss Someone - Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson
To June This Morning - Ruston
Kelly and Kacey Musgraves
Gold All Over the Ground - Brad Paisley
You Never Knew My Mind - Chris Cornell
The Captain's Daughter -
Alison Krauss and Union Station
Jellico Coal Man - T. Bone Burnett
The Walking Wounded - Rosanne Cash
Them
Double Blues - John Mellencamp
Body on Body - Jewel
I'll Still Love You - Elvis Costello
June's Sundown - Carlene Carter
He Bore It All - Dailey & Vincent
Chinky Pin Hill - I'm With Her
Goin', Goin', Gone - Robert Glasper featuring Ro James, and Anu Sun
What Would I Dreamer Do? - The Jayhawks
Spirit Rider - Jamey Johnson
Johnny Cash: Forever Words is available to pre-order now.
